"Cushy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of it, Fools, or no fools. And you could laugh in those days, And didn't snigger like the ginger fizgig. Your voice was a bird's: but you laugh little now; And—well, maybe, your voice is still a bird's. There's birds and birds. Then, 'twas a cushy-doo's That's brooding on her nest, while the red giglet's Was a gowk's at the end of June. Do you call to mind We sat the livelong day in a golden carriage, Squandering a fortune, forby the tanner I dropt? They wouldn't stop to let me pick it up; And when we alighted from the roundabout, Some skunk ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
... shirt is rather chatty and my socks 'ud make you larf; It's just a week o' Sundays since they sent us for a barf; But them that 'as the cushy jobs they lives in style and state, With a basin in their bedrooms and their dinners on a plate; For 'tis a law o' nachur with the bloomin' infantry— The nearer up to the line you go ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 25, 1917 • Various
... those Blighties out so free, Just send a nice sweet cushy one to me— One that will strike me just below the knee. Six months in Blighty—oh, ...
— Into the Jaws of Death • Jack O'Brien |
